Nelson, N., Geltzer, A., and Hilgartner, S. (2008). The Anticipatory State: Making Policy-Relevant Knowledge about the Future. Science and Public Policy 35(9),546-550.

Delia Gavrus

PhD 2011, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto

Dissertation: "Men of Strong Opinions:" Identity, Self-Representation, and the Performance of Neurosurgery, 1919-1950

Research Interests:

I am interested in the history of 19th and 20th century medicine and science, in Canadian history, and in US history. As a cultural historian, I ask questions about the nature of professionalization and specialist identity, the relationship between the self and medical practice, the patients’ experience, representations of medicine and science in popular culture, and the role of epistemic authority in scientific debates.

Publications:

“Men of Dreams and Men of Action: Neurologists, Neurosurgeons and the Performance of Professional Identity, 1925–1950.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 85(1) (2011): 57–92.

“Mind over Matter: Sherrington, Penfield, Eccles, Walshe and the Dualist Movement in Neuroscience.” In MCIS Briefings, Comparative Program on Health and Society Lupina Foundation Working Papers Series 2005–2006, Jillian Clare Cohen and Lisa Forman, eds. University of Toronto (2006): 51–75.

Dissertation – “Evidence Based Medicine – The history of a recent medical revolution”. Director of thesis – Dr. Noah Efron

email – zimermanariel [at] hotmail [dot] com

Research interest:

I am interested in the social and intellectual history of Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence Based Medicine and the introduction of statistical and quantified reasoning to clinical practice. In the current Postdoc I am exploring the relation between medical journals and their editors and circles of clinical epidemiologist, relations that were instrumental in the introduction of the methods of clinical epidemiology to medical publishing and the introduction of the methods of Evidence Based Medicine into clinical practice. I am currently working on a book on the history of Evidence Based Medicine based in my dissertation.

I see my medical practice as integral to my research project. In medicine I am interested in prenatal diagnosis, intrapartum imaging and the epidemiology and prevention of preterm birth.

2- A. Zimerman. The Use of Two-Dimensional (2D) and Three-Dimensional (3D) Ultrasound in the First Stage of Labor. In A. Malvasi (ed.), Intrapartum Ultrasonography for Labor Management, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.

Darren N. Wagner

Research Interests:
History of Reproduction; History of Sexuality; Eighteenth-Century Studies; Cultural History of Medicine; Social History of Technologies; Gender Studies; Literature and Science; Museum Studies; History of Anatomy

Publications:
Wagner, D. and R. Stephanson, eds. Forthcoming, 2015. The Secrets of Generation: Reproduction in the 18th Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Wagner, D. 2011. Visualizations of the Womb through Tropes, Dissection, and Illustration, circa 1660-1774. In Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century: Reconfiguring the Visual Periphery of the Text, edited by C. Ionescu, 531-73. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pbk forthcoming.